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...then there is Andrew Drake. A mild that Ukranian nationalism will be his cause for his fourth book. Perfect vehicles for displaying the author's well-known and rabid hatred of the Soviets, Drake and his crew of "freedom fighters" make the moves that turn the grain shortage into possible Armageddon. There is something disturbing about the terrorist-as-hero syndrome so pervasive in contemporary thrillers, but with writers struggling to match newspaper headlines, they seem compelled to have characters willing to use extremism in defense of their vision of liberty...
...Downing Street, the White House and, most impressive of all, the Kremlin, add immeasurably to the sense of reality. Superb mannered pillar of the English middle class. It is at first hard to understand what this man is doing among all these movers and shakers. We soon learn: "Andrew Drake, despite his Anglicized name, was also a Ukranian, and a fanatic." Forsyth decides Bond-like gadgets also appear in delicious profusion, including a personal favorite, the "flash-bang-crash grenades," which blind anyone looking at them, blow out their eardrums, and "cause a ten-second paralysis." Just ten seconds...
...slab of foam-filled polyethylene, 12 ft. long and shaped like a surfboard, but with a sail attached. Such a wind-surfing board will support up to 400 Ibs. The craft was invented twelve years ago when two young Californians, Hoyle Schweitzer, a surfer, and Jim Drake, a sailor, one day began arguing the merits and problems of their respective passions. Surfing, Schweitzer complained, was too dependent on wave conditions; sailing, Drake sighed, was tied to wind conditions and required a time-consuming ritual of rigging the boat. So they retired to Schweitzer's Pacific Palisades garage and built...
...realize the power to bring about revolution lies in us," Drake Koka, a black South African educator in self-exile, told an audience of more than 100 last night in Longfellow Hall...
Astronomer Frank Drake, who in 1960 with Project Ozma began the first serious quest for extraterrestrial intelligent life...